{"id":45200,"date":"2024-08-03T12:00:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T12:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/journalists-protesters-flee-as-police-open-fire-on-demostrators-at-mko-abiola-stadium-abuja\/"},"modified":"2024-08-03T12:00:10","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T12:00:10","slug":"journalists-protesters-flee-as-police-open-fire-on-demostrators-at-mko-abiola-stadium-abuja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/journalists-protesters-flee-as-police-open-fire-on-demostrators-at-mko-abiola-stadium-abuja\/","title":{"rendered":"BREAKING: Journalists, protesters flee as police open fire on demostrators at MKO Abiola Stadium Abuja"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Men of the Nigeria Police on Saturday opened fire on protesters and journalists at the MKO Abiola Stadium in Abuja, during the end hunger protest.<\/p>\n<p>DAILY POST gathered that protesters, mostly youths, had gathered in front of the stadium for the day three of the 10-day protest to end bad governance in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The heavily armed men, who arrived the venue around 11:45am, ordered them to leave.<br \/>\nFollowing their refusal to obey the order, the policemen opened fire on the protesters, including journalists at the venue.<\/p>\n<p>More to come.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1116868\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240803-WA0006.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240803-WA0006.jpg 720w, https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240803-WA0006-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1116866\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240803-WA0009.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"708\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240803-WA0009.jpg 708w, https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240803-WA0009-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 708px) 100vw, 708px\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1116865\" src=\"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240803-WA0008-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"718\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240803-WA0008-1.jpg 718w, https:\/\/dailypost.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/IMG-20240803-WA0008-1-300x166.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 718px) 100vw, 718px\"><\/p>\n<p>BREAKING: Journalists, protesters flee as police open fire on demostrators at MKO Abiola Stadium Abuja<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Men of the Nigeria Police on Saturday opened fire on protesters and journalists at the MKO Abiola Stadium in Abuja,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45201,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4660,4168,22876,15,761],"tags":[5351,32,1227,22877,1163,18383,764,3185,5352,180,457,99,2429,2041,762],"class_list":["post-45200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abuja","category-breaking","category-mko-abiola-stadium","category-news","category-top-headlines","tag-abiola","tag-abuja","tag-breaking","tag-demostrators","tag-fire","tag-flee","tag-headlines","tag-journalists","tag-mko","tag-news","tag-open","tag-police","tag-protesters","tag-stadium","tag-top"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45200","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45200\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}